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Ride the Wings of Morning

Ride the Wings of Morning
  • Author(s): Sophie Neville
  • Location(s): Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1992-1999

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a safari guide on a game reserve in Southern Africa? Sophie arrived in South Africa to spend help a friend run horseback safaris on a game reserve...

Blood Rose

Blood Rose
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Namibia, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. It is a corrupt, claustrophobic place with a...

Africa My Passion

Africa My Passion
  • Author(s): Corinne Hofmann
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Namibia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

In a compelling personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the...

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place
  • Author(s): Laurens Van Der Post
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a massacre: a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushmen. The basis for a major film release from Walt Disney Pictures.

An Absolute Deception

An Absolute Deception
  • Author(s): Lesley Lokko
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Known as ‘The Ice Queen’, Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world’s most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents, she’s a truly global brand, in every sense. Yet despite her success, she’s...

An Arid Eden

An Arid Eden
  • Author(s): Garth Owen-Smith
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Garth Owen-Smith has spent almost his entire working life fighting – not against a conventional enemy but against official ignorance, harsh climatic conditions, poachers and other enemies of Africa’s fast-diminishing wildlife. In the process he has lived and worked...

An Empty Coast

An Empty Coast
  • Author(s): Tony Park
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A body from an old war and a missing girl bring retired mercenary Sonja Kurtz home to Africa’s deadly Skeleton Coast. Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary – is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission...

Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat

Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat
  • Author(s): Sy Montgomery
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Since the year 1900, cheetah footprints quickly dwindled in African dirt as the species plummeted from more than 100,000 to fewer than 10,000. At the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s (CCF) African headquarters in Namibia, Laurie Marker and her team save...

Embassy Wife

Embassy Wife
  • Author(s): Katie Crouch
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems...

Ivory Ghosts

Ivory Ghosts
  • Author(s): Caitlin O'Connell
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Thriller

In a blockbuster debut thriller brimming with majestic wildlife, village politics, and international intrigue, a chilling quadruple homicide raises the stakes in the battle to save Africa’s elephants. Still grieving over the tragic death of her fiancé, American wildlife...

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